Call it amnesia or a selective memory but by the end of each February, I’m forever stunned by how much I attempted to cram into the month. Those few fewer days mean less wiggle room to polish a story or less opportunity to accomplish a personal goal and that gap was more palpable than ever this year. My expectations were evidently misguided again because I felt stress mounting and sanity slipping a week in – undertakings, both personal and professional, too ambitious for one middling little month. Getting sidelined by mercury retrograde (am now a total believer) certainly didn’t help with creative clarity either.
Which is really to say, I wasn’t able to do, see or eat many of things on my long-running wish list. But here’s what I did manage to squeeze in:
1// A quiet dinner at Pan
My friend Elle had been talking about this 10th arrondissement spot for ages and we finally found a night to double date to give it a try. The compact menu plays up modern bistro basics and changes regularly. We split a terrific fennel and mandarine salad as an appetizer and I followed with a delicious plate…
